Word: topic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prohibition, the curse of America; Prohibition, the blessing of the age; and now, Prohibition, the subject of an epic by the talented M. Pillionel, who promises to turn the shafts of his Gallic wit on this topic in the very near future...
...continually running into things which had happened in various parts of the world of which I was not cognizant. This lack of knowledge was the more noticeable because of my former experience with TIME, during which I was not very often caught unawares in any discussion of a public topic...
Yesterday morning students in one of the largest courses in American history took part in an educational experiment new at least to most of the students concerned. With the era preceding the outbreak of the Civil War as the topic of the lecture, the professor offered a half hour's debate with two history instructors as the proponents of abolition and slavery. The two went at the subject and each other hammer and tongs, according to the purpose of the experiment--to reproduce as accurately as might be the debates of the '40's and '50's, portraying the prejudices...
...first lecture by President Manning will be given Monday at 4 o'clock in the Lecture Room of Robinson Hall. The topic of this lecture is "A National Plan", and it will be illustrated with a series of lantern slides...
...education and with substituting for it, within reasonable bounds, individual self-development. The American college is constantly struggling with the problem of how to get the mass of its students interested. The answer is to put them "on their own." The student that is allowed to choose a special topic that interests him, and to work it out for himself under advice, is bound to become interested. Education then become what the word itself means. Yale Alumni Weekly